Alehouse Simcoe Double IPA

Formerly brewed at Verulam (Prev Alehouse)
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
St. Albans, England

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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[RBESG, Sheffield] Grand Tasting @ The Harlequin, Sheffield.Copper colored, no head at all. Very sweet ,not that bitter. Some piney hops an artificial strawberry nose and flavor. Not nice :D

[cask-bottled, RBESG 2009, Grand Tasting] Strawberries and diacetyl aroma with some bitterness. Almost clear red-orange under a bubbly ring. Sticky sweet orange-strawberry flavour with some caramel/butterscotch and slight bitterness. Low carbonation, very low bitter finish with strawberry-caramel.

Cask Handbottle at RBESG Harlequin, Sheffield 19/07/2009 Fruity strawberry aroma. Golden coloured strong in alcohol and sweet on the palate with a little dryness in a bitter lasting finish.

Bottle at RBESG grand tasting. Diacetyl all through this. Strawberry and cream flavour. No evident simcoe. Fail.

[RBESG, Sheffield] Grand Tasting @ The Halequin, Sheffield... copper ... odd strawberry nose with little pine ... sweet woody hop ... little creamy bitterness.

[RBESG, Sheffield]
Grand Tasting @ The Harlequin, Sheffield.
(Handbottle). Pours orange with a small, bubbly head. Aroma has butter, light hops and strawberries. Low carbonation, fine mouthfeel. Flavour has lots of melon, grapefruit, oranges, light butter and strawberries. Not excactly in perfect shape, this.

Hand-bottle @ RBESG 09 Grand Tasting @ [ The Harlequin, Sheffield, England. ]
Clear medium red orange color with a small, virtually none, fair lacing, mostly diminishing head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caraeml, toffee, strawberry cream strew. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a average to long duration, a alcohol burn in the finish and out of balance. Body is medium, texture is oily and sticky, carbonation is flat. [20090719]

Bottle at the RBESG09 Grand Tasting, Sheffield. Alround rating: Toffee very sweet malts, fruity, lightly buttery, notes of strawberry, but alound very sweet and not very IIPA like.

Hand bottled @ RBESG Grand Tasting 2009. Reddish brown color. Butter, strawberry and some oily hops in the aroma. A 9% diacetyl bomb. Full bodied. Tangerine and some earthiness in the fairly hopped flavor. Just a touch of butter. Strawberry in the aftertaste. Alcoholic.

RBESG Sheffield 2009 Grand Tasting at the Harlequin. Handbottle. Clear golden orange colour, no head. Aroma of cream, alcohol, toffee, butter. Flavour is sweet, grapefruit hops, caramel, big malts, butterscotch, fruits, bitter finish. Medium bodied.